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Texas has refused to carry out the tests on evidence found at the home ever since a jury convicted him in 1995.

Skinner has maintained his innocence since the beginning. But he has also enjoyed the support for 10 years of Northwestern University journalism professor David Protess, who has rerun the investigation with his students as part of the school's "innocence project."

He said DNA tests on Skinner would clear the death row inmate if compared to DNA found on the victims.

Skinner is now married to Frenchwoman and death penalty activist Sandrine Ageorges.